Association of Zoos and Aquariums announces 2025 SAFE Grant recipients totaling $434,429. One of the grant recipients, Star ...

Eventually, the team hopes for a return of these stars to Monterey Bay, where they can help maintain kelp forests, which are ...

Sunflowers, one of the world’s largest sea stars, have declined rapidly because of sea star wasting disease. They’ve lost more than 90% of their Pacific Ocean population since 2013. Sunflower sea ...

Since 2013, 90% of the Pacific population of these sea stars has been lost to the gruesome and disfiguring sea star wasting disease. The disease outbreak is being driven by climate change, with warmer ...

Due to sea star wasting disease, lower oxygen levels in seawater, and rising temperatures, starfish populations are at risk ...

Since 2013, more than 20 sea star species from Mexico to Alaska have been affected by a sea star wasting disease. The sunflower sea star in particular, is among the worst hit. The outbreak has alarmed ...

96% of the sunflower star population was wiped out in 2015 and 2016. While sea otters were unaffected by wasting disease and continued to eat large urchins, the populations of medium-sized urchins ...

The mysterious disease, called sea star wasting disease, has persisted at low levels in most areas in Monterey Bay and continues to kill sea stars. Sunflower sea stars prey on urchins, helping ...